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Reduce to Common Sense: Simply Drugs

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Reduce to Common Sense. Simple rules can build complex systems. Sunday, November 02, 2014. There seems to be a very basic divide in society. It defines where you stand in the political spectrum, as evident in the major split just this week on drugs policy. The media too prevent these two as the only choices in every debate. Simplistically, where you stand on this basic question is even taken to embody your general attitude to life, whether we will be your friend enemy or be your friend.

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Reduce to Common Sense: Cashback

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Reduce to Common Sense. Simple rules can build complex systems. Friday, September 26, 2014. Moved onto a new mobile phone contract. It is with one of the big 4 network providers but it is ridiculously cheap. How? Although the contract remains directly with one of the big four network providers, the sale was effectively through a broker and customers are expected to claim cashback Yet there are only two ways the broker can make money from this. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile.

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Reduce to Common Sense: Mr Wrong

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Reduce to Common Sense. Simple rules can build complex systems. Friday, May 10, 2013. I went to college with Michael Gove. He appeared to be a bit of a pompous snob even then. But at least I thought he was literate. He attacked something written in the Guardian Education pages by the children's author "Mr Rosen criticised the test on the basis that there was no such thing as correct grammar". Yet Mr Rosen said no such thing. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile.

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Reduce to Common Sense: More reasons to cut your child

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Reduce to Common Sense. Simple rules can build complex systems. Thursday, August 14, 2014. More reasons to cut your child. To avoid having to tell people if it’s a girl or a boy. To hang bits of metal from the holes to accessorise. To avoid possibly difficult argument later when the cold might not actually want it done. To provide a permanent mark of ownership so people know they belong. To support the gold and jewellery business who would otherwise go bust. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).

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Reduce to Common Sense: Finally a proper personal status update

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Reduce to Common Sense. Simple rules can build complex systems. Friday, July 11, 2014. Finally a proper personal status update. Got a bit of time out of the office today, finally. Five separate assessments crammed in. Met the teachers of both my children. My car had its annual MOT check. I had a routine dentist appointment. Had to make time for a medical visit too. So five separate verdicts:. 8226; Splendid progress, pretty damn excellent all round. Not necessarily in order. View my complete profile.

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Reduce to Common Sense: Getting Work Done

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Reduce to Common Sense. Simple rules can build complex systems. Friday, November 28, 2014. You have a small job that needs doing.  Say the replacement of a fitting in your house or car. . It is obvious and predictable to say the ideal worker should be a blend of the two types. We never have the ideal. Rana, learn how to do it yourself, then you dont have to deal with these ghastly working class types. Good to see your blog back in effect. Looking forward to some more musings; Slees. The search for truth.

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Reduce to Common Sense: Getting High

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Reduce to Common Sense. Simple rules can build complex systems. Thursday, September 25, 2014. Being high up. Mad. Paying good money to go up to the top of the Shard or any other tall building is mad. You can get basically the same view from thousands of office windows. And that view is usually rubbish. You are so high up that you see very little. The density argument is rubbish too. Central Kensington is one of the most densely populated areas in Britain and central Amsterdam is one of the most dense...

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Reduce to Common Sense: No gifts

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Reduce to Common Sense. Simple rules can build complex systems. Friday, May 01, 2015. Not quite a top five here, more a top two and bottom three. When going to a wedding, or a christening or a baby shower or other similar event, particularly when the host has explicitly said that gifts should NOT be brought, you have a number of options:. Do as the host says, just come and celebrate the occasion but don’t bring a present. Again, that’s what the host wanted. What is not acceptable is to:.

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Reduce to Common Sense: Agility

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Reduce to Common Sense. Simple rules can build complex systems. Wednesday, October 08, 2014. Every new system we build is by definition new, therefore not clearly defined, therefore subject to change. During many years trying to develop massive princely systems, I always believed there was a more agile way. From the agile manifesto, my personal top five:. 1 Released development is the measure of progress. 2 Welcome changing requirements - even late in development. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).